Some forty or fifty riders bit the dust, but the rest swept on, sabred the gunners, and decided the day.
So wrote Captain Clark Kennedy, who sabred the French colour-bearer and captured the eagle.
Panting up the muddy slopes opposite, they sabred the gunners, enveloped the Russian squares, and the three allied sovereigns themselves had to beat a hasty retreat to avoid capture.
In a moment old Pinto said, "The regiment is totally routed; the beggarly Prussians havesabred half of it; we shall find the remainder by and by.
Cavalry, to make way for themselves, sabred the infantry, who replied with the bayonet.
I had no doubt that they had just visited one of our own bivouacs, and it was hard to lie there and watch them, knowing that they had sabred many an honest Frenchman that day.
We should be sabred to a man if these assassins rode us down, and, with a cry of "En avant!
There was no longer the necessity for Leon and myself to be spectators of the affray, and, rushing out into the melee, we shot and sabred where we could.
Someone had sabredor bayoneted the sentry at the gate.
The artillerymen were sabred at their guns, the muzzles of which were immediately turned on the Mexicans.
One woman, who was near the spot where I stood, and who held an infant in her arms, was sabred over the head, and her tender offspring drenched in its mother's blood.
Some were sabred in the breast; so inhuman, indiscriminate, and fiend-like, was the conduct of the Manchester Yeomanry Cavalry.
The Russian hussars of Ysum were sabred and overthrown at Kelm.
The other Frenchman made a desperate resistance also, but was sabred after wounding two of my quadrilla.
We fell upon them ere they had time to make any disposition to receive our unlooked for rear-attack, and sabred them to a man.
Centaur, while in the act of snatching from destruction the unfortunate Spaniards who were being sabred by the French cavalry when rushing into the sea to our boats for protection.
Some unfortunate English prisoners, owing to treachery amongst themselves, had beensabred in the same passage years before, in a vain attempt to escape during the night.
Split in the centre, torn through and through, the weapons dropped from their hands, they were ridden down and sabred by Nogais and Cossacks.
In the crowd of nobles to cast on a man the suspicion of being a Zaporojian in disguise was enough to insure his being sabred into small pieces before he could show who he was.
The sentinels weresabred at their posts, the guards, half-dressed, fled in terror or were speedily killed.
Innocent children were savagely sabred by German officers who, only a week before, were strutting in civilised drawing-rooms, the scented and elegant darlings of the ladies of Berlin.
And as he passed across the courtyard, for the atmosphere had now become hot and stifling, he savagely kicked aside the body of one of the young female servants who, poor thing, had been sabred in her attempt to escape.
The enemy, surprised and confounded, fled in every direction, pursued by the victorious dragoons, who sabred many men and captured a drove of oxen.
Captain Thompson however had a very narrow escape, having been thrown down by a rush of some swordsmen into the gateway, and nearly sabred while upon the ground.
O’Higgins again advanced, while the grenadiers under Zapiola charged the centre of the enemy, and sabred his artillerymen at their guns.
The cavalry galloped through the streets of the town, sabred stragglers and made several prisoners, among the latter being the wounded general Ricafort.
Their defence, if somewhat late, was a most gallant one, and the gunners continued to fire on our advancing columns till we captured the block-house and sabred the men at their guns.
The Sikh gunners were sabred in their batteries, while the entire of the infantry and every disposable gun were promptly brought into action by Sir Hugh Gough.
They charged through the French squadrons, overthrew them, captured two guns, and sabred many of Ruffin’s grenadiers, while endeavouring to regain their ranks.
Mr. M‘Callum was shot as he ascended the pulpit, Lieutenant Spens was sabred while he knelt at prayer, Dr.
The dismounted officers hurried to their horses, and the lancers hastily faced about to resist the charge; but before they could complete the movement, they were sabred and ridden over.
The faction, it is well known, have no cavalry, and you will not catch their infernal guerillas coming down into the plain to be sabred at leisure.
They seemed to be escorting us, but they sabred every one who straggled from the road, and took no prisoners, neither did they attack the column; a few musket-shots passed over us from the right and left.
Many more than a hundred sabred gentlemen pressed round to "do themselves the honor," as they expressed it, of paying Cunningham a compliment.
The Greys charged into the village of Autreglize, overthrew andsabred the infantry in the streets.
At this instant the enemy gave way on all sides, and the cavalry rushing forwardsabred many as they fled towards the Danube; whilst the Count D'Arco, and other officers escaped by crossing the river.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sabred" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
